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UK Green Film Festival: Divide in Concord (UK Premiere) at Vue Islington

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Time 19:00
Date 03/05/15
Price £10

Kris Kaczor's film about a fiery octogenarian who is deeply concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—the world’s largest landfill.

She spends her golden years attending city council meetings and cold-calling residents.

Since 2010, she’s spearheaded a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. So far, her attempts to pass a municipal bylaw have failed. As she prepares for one last town meeting, Jean faces the strongest opposition yet, from local merchants and the International Bottled Water Association.

In the same town that incited the American Revolution and inspired Thoreau’s environmental movement, can one senior citizen make history? A tense nail-biter of a vote will decide.

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